Patents by Inventor Gerhard Kotitschke

Gerhard Kotitschke has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6090244
    Abstract: Press section of a machine for manufacturing a fibrous pulp web. The press section includes at least one press nip for draining the fibrous pulp web and at least one continuous press felt positioned on each side of the fibrous pulp web. The at least one continuous press felts may be guided through the press nip. The press section also includes a transfer roll that transfers the fibrous pulp web from a belt of a prepositioned unit to one of the at least one continuous press felts and a suctioned guide roll arranged within a loop of the one continuous press felt and between the transfer roll and the press nip. The suctioned guide roll is adjustably positionable so that the at least one continuous press felt positioned opposite the one continuous press felt is at least tangential to the suctioned guide roll, and adjustable positioning of the suctioned guide roll adjusts/an intake angle of the web into the press nip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Kotitschke
  • Patent number: 6027612
    Abstract: The invention concerns the wire section of a papermaking machine and a method of removing water from a fiber web in that section. A fiber suspension is discharged from a headbox on at least one and usually between two wires in the forming section. The fiber suspension is dewatered until it eventually reaches the point of immobility at which the fiber orientation is fixed. The rate of removal of water transverse to the direction of travel of the web is controlled at regions across the web. In particular, the rate of water removal is decreased at the edge regions of the wire and the web, as compared with the center region, to improve the transverse formation profile of the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: Voith Sulze Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Begemann, Gerhard Kotitschke, Hans Dahl, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Karl Josef Bock
  • Patent number: 5964956
    Abstract: A process for cleaning a transport belt of a machine to manufacture a material web, in particular a paper or cardboard web, is provided so that the transport belt is cleaned with varying intensity across its width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Karlheinz Straub, Markus Oechsle, Gerhard Kotitschke
  • Patent number: 5932070
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a device for removing at least one of paper sheet remnants and a paper sheet from a belt. The device may include a blow device including at least one blow opening extending lateral to a travel direction of the belt and a compressor coupled to the blow device to supply compressed air to the at least one blow opening. The at least one blow opening may be directed toward the at least one of the paper sheet remnants and the paper sheet to be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Esslinger, Gerhard Kotitschke, Wolfgang Mayer, Andreas Meschenmoser, Gunther Mohrhardt
  • Patent number: 5914009
    Abstract: A two-wire former of a papermaking making machine has the following characteristics: (1) two continuous, loop-shaped wires (1, 2) form together an inlet gap for the paper pulp suspension; (2) a sheet forming zone has a section in which both wires are guided parallel to each other; (3) a plurality of guide rollers are arranged inside and outside both wire loops; (4) a roller (3, 4) associated to each wire loop deflects the associated wire at the beginning of the parallel section; (5) at least one of both inlet rollers (3, 4) has a circumferential area that forms no closed surface (forming roller). According to the invention, (6) both wires runs on the paper pulp-bearing section in a substantially horizontal direction; (7) the top wire is separated from the bottom wire by a separating suction box (8) with a curved surface; (8) the dewatering element (7.1) that follows the forming roller on the same side of the wire is provided with elastically suspended dewatering strips (7.3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignee: J.M. Voith GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Kotitschke
  • Patent number: 5829164
    Abstract: A machine for producing a material web, e.g., a paper or cardboard web, with a dryer section including at least one dryer group having a plurality of dryer cylinders and a plurality of web guide rolls, e.g., suction web guide rolls. At least one web guide roll, and preferably all, may be associated with an external suction box. Further, a jacket of the at least one web guide roll may include a plurality of through openings and at least one groove formed in an outer surface of the jacket. A predetermined number, and preferably all, of the through openings may be coupled with a bottom portion of the at least one groove to enable the external suction box to suction the at least one web guide roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Kotitschke
  • Patent number: 5782009
    Abstract: A device for guiding a sheet of fibrous material to be dried and a support belt through a drying device. The device including an external suction box having first and second openings located adjacent a deflection roll and adjacent to a lift-off point associated with a first dryer cylinder, respectively. The external suction box also including a first and second aspiration conduit respectively associated with the first and second openings. The deflection roll may be aspirated by an external vacuum souce coupled to the external suction box. The fibrous sheet, through the support belt, may be assisted at the lift-off point by aspiration by a separate external vacuum source coupled to the second aspiration conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Kotitschke
  • Patent number: 5752325
    Abstract: A drier section for drying a continuous web, particularly a paper web produced by a paper manufacturing machine. The drier section may include at least one single-row drier group with a plurality of drier cylinders and a plurality of guide rollers. The continuous web may guided, together with a continuous felt, in a meandering manner through the drier section. The drier section may also include a plurality of additional drier cylinders and a separate felt guided by additional guide rollers for guiding the continuous web around the drier cylinders of the single-row drier group and around the additional drier cylinders. The number of the additional drier cylinders may be less than the number of drier cylinders disposed within the single-row drier group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Kotitschke
  • Patent number: 5735060
    Abstract: In a drying section of a paper making machine, the paper web is conducted through a plurality of single tier dryer sections and then transferred to at least one final double tier dryer section for completing the drying process. The paper web is threaded through the open draw between the single tier dryer sections and the double tier dryer section and through the open draws between the lower cylinders and the upper cylinders in the double tier dryer section by use of air jets which blow at the paper web from opposite sides thereof. The air jets include at least one jet which blows in a direction generally opposite to that of the paper web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Erlfried Atzinger, Hans-Peter Sollinger, Gerhard Kotitschke, Hans Jurgen Wulz, Peter Kahl, Wolfgang Mueller
  • Patent number: 5647960
    Abstract: A press section of a paper machine includes a pick-up roll, a take-off felt looping about at least the pick-up roll and a connected first pressing element, and a counter element assigned to the first pressing element. The counter element and the first pressing element define a first press unit. A first pressing felt loops about at least the counter element of the first press unit and a second pressing element with a smooth surface. The second pressing element forms a second press unit with the first pressing element. The press section also includes a smooth press belt partially looping around a portion of the second pressing element, a third pressing element looped about by the smooth press belt, and a third counter element assigned to the third pressing element. The third counter element and the third pressing element form a third press unit. A third pressing felt loops about at least the third counter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: J.M. Voith GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Kotitschke
  • Patent number: 5600897
    Abstract: In the initial region of the dryer section at least one of the dryer groups (23) is developed as a single-felt dryer group in which a single endless felt (F) and the web (9) travel alternately over cylinders (73) and guide suction rolls (73'). In the final region of the dryer section there is present at least one double-felt dryer group (24) in which a web (9) travels alternately over lower (74) and upper (74') cylinders. The single-felt group (23) has an automatic ropeless tail guide device (76, 79) for the threading of the so-called tail. In the double-felt dryer group (24) an automatic ropeless tail guide device (77, 78) is also present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: J.M. Voith GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Sollinger, Gerhard Kotitschke, Hans J. Wulz, Peter Kahl, Wolfgang Mueller
  • Patent number: 5557860
    Abstract: A drying section includes a plurality of single-tier dryer groups, optionally followed by one or more double-tier groups. To control curl in the final paper product, a moistening device extending over the width of the drying section is provided near the end of the single-tier dryer groups. The moistening device can be divided into various zones to control the profile of the paper. Alternatively, or in addition to the moistening device, a contact-less dryer such as a infrared dryer can be provided after the dryer section, upstream of a calender section of the paper making machine. The moistening device can be provided to moisten the bottom or, optionally, the top side of the paper web. Where a double-tier dryer group is provided, to control curl the upper drying cylinders and the lower cylinders can be provided with different steam pressures to control curl. Alternatively, each of the cylinders can be individually controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1996
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Kotitschke, Hans-Peter Sollinger, Markus Oechsle, Karlheinz Straub
  • Patent number: 5537755
    Abstract: A drying section for use in a papermaking machine has a two-felt drying group with an upper row of cylinders and an upper felt and with a lower row of cylinders and a lower felt. In each row of cylinders, two adjacent cylinders form a sub-group having a deflection suction roll disposed therebetween. A web to be dried passes alternately through the upper and lower sub-groups. Opposite each deflection suction roll of one row of cylinders lies a section of the felt path of the other row of cylinders, the space located therebetween being free from components to facilitate removal of paper broke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Kotitschke
  • Patent number: 5526579
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dryer section of a machine for the production of fibrous web, such as a paper web. The dryer section comprises at least one dryer group having at least one drying cylinder and an endless porous support belt that guides the web around each cylinder. This is followed by a reversing roll being formed as a suction roll. With the web being supported by said porous support belt the web directly contacts said reversing roll. A distance of at least 150 mm is provided between the cylinder and the reversing roll. A sealing strip extends transversely over and close to the inner side of the endless porous belt in the region where web and belt are traveling off the cylinder. For deflecting the air boundary layer which arrives together with the belt, a sealing support beam also extends transversely over the inner side of the belt and supports the sealing strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: J.M. Voith GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Kade, Wilfried Kraft, Wolfgang Mayer, Gerhard Kotitschke
  • Patent number: 5517714
    Abstract: The device comprises a blowing device (2) extending transversely to the screen travel direction, said device having two mutually parallel strips extending transversely to the travel direction of the screen, namely a leading strip (41) and a trailing strip (42), each of which contacts circulating screen (11) with a screen guide surface. Between the two strips is a blowing opening connected to a source of compressed air (62). Between leading strip (41) and screen (11) a wedge-shaped gap (45) is formed, tapering in the screen travel direction, in which gap a water-spraying device (3) terminates. Blowing device (2) is located inside the endless loop of screen (11), and water-spraying device (3) is located on the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Kotitschke
  • Patent number: 5501775
    Abstract: A wet press for a paper making machine presses out water from a moist paper web. The wet press has a plurality of press rolls, preferably five. The press rolls are paired so that each pair defines a respective press nip. There are preferably at least four press nips defined by the paired press rolls. The press rolls are so placed and the press nips are so defined and the web is so trained on the path through the wet press that the paper web is always supported by the outer surface of one of the press rolls on the web path from the first press nip to the last press nip. At the second press nip in the path of the web, each of the press rolls there forms a felt free second press nip and each of the press rolls at the second nip has a closed outer surface. The same may be true for the fourth press nip. Some of the press rolls may be shoe press rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Kotitschke, Christian Schiel
  • Patent number: 5381580
    Abstract: The device has two mutually parallel slats extending crosswise to the running direction of the wire, namely an approach slat and a departure slat which with a wire guide surface each touch the revolving wire. Contained between the two slats is a blowing slot connected to a compressed air supply. Forming between the approach slat and the wire is a wedge-shaped gore tapering in the wire running direction, into which gore empties a water spray system. The departure slat has a step type clearance at the point where the wire leaves the wire guide surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Kotitschke, Otmar Kolb
  • Patent number: 5355593
    Abstract: A device for transferring a paper web from the press section into the dry end of a paper making machine. The web contacts a rotatable press surface, e.g. on a press roll, and travels with the press surface through a press nip against a backing roll, and thereafter travels with the press surface to a web removal place. The web is transferred by a suction device across an adjustable gap to a porous transport belt which transports the web toward a first dryer group. The first dryer group has a number of drying cylinders and a web support belt that transfers the web from drying cylinder to drying cylinder. Either a suction device or another intermediate transfer roll transfers the web from the transport belt to the support belt for the dryer group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Assignee: J.M. Voith GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Kotitschke
  • Patent number: 5341579
    Abstract: In a paper making machine a porous support belt travels together with the web over a drying cylinder and leaves the cylinder at a point of removal. A suction box provided in the region of the web removal has a suction zone which is defined by means of two yieldable sealing strips which extend transversely to the direction of travel of the web, and each is supported in a sealing strip holder. The distance between each sealing strip holder and the outer surface of the drying cylinder amounts to at least 30 mm, and each of the yieldable sealing strips has, in its normal condition of operation, such an inherent stiffness that the sealing strip remains substantially free of deformation in the event of a difference in pressure of 0.01 to 0.1 bar between the suction zone and its surroundings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Schiel, Gerhard Kotitschke, Karl Groner
  • Patent number: 5319863
    Abstract: A dryer section of a machine for manufacturing fiber webs, which includes a plurality of heatable drying cylinders arranged to form at least a first dryer group and a second dryer group, and arranged in horizontal cylinder rows, and including a plurality of suction rolls each being disposed between two adjacent cylinders. The cylinders of the first group have axes disposed in a first plane I, the suction rolls of the first group have axes disposed in a second plane II, the cylinders of the second group have axes disposed in a third plane III, and the suction rolls of the second group have axes disposed in a fourth plane IV. In accordance with different embodiments planes I and II may be coplanar, planes II and III may be coplanar; planes I and III may be disposed between planes II and IV; and the axes of the first drying cylinders and its associated suction roll of the second group may be disposed below the axes of the other drying cylinders and suction rolls of the second group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Kotitschke, Georg Kugler, Wolfgang Mayer